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Plot

One thousand years after the One State's conquest of the entire world, the spaceship
Integral
is being built in order to invade and conquer extraterrestrial planets. Meanwhile, the project's chief engineer, D-503, begins a
journal
that he intends to be carried upon the completed spaceship.[3]

Cast

Alain Bourret (as Alan B) as Narrator

Pierre-Antoine Piter as D-503/Daniel

Amélie De Swarte as I-330/Iris

Julien Prost as The Well-Doer

Alexandre Bourret as The Spokesman

Axel Bourret as The Assistant Engineer

Axel Bourret as The Doctor

Fanny Storck as The Nurse

Reception

The Glass Fortress
is an experimental film that employs a technique known as freeze frame, and is shot in
black-and-white, which help support the grim atmosphere of the story's
dystopian society.[3]
The film is technically similar to La Jetée
(1963), directed by Chris Marker, and refers somewhat to
THX 1138
(1971), by George Lucas, in the "religious appearance of the Well Doer".[4]
According to film critic Isabelle Arnaud,
The Glass Fortress
has a special atmosphere underlining a story of thwarted love that will be long remembered.[5]

Referring to the film project, reviewer Anass Khayati noted that
The Glass Fortress
is a "very welcome addition to the Zamyatinian literature as it draws more attention to a work that is appreciated less than it deserves ... [the film director] recaptures D-503’s frustrated dream and his incomplete journey to emancipation in a loyal and original rendering. Such gesture should be understood not only as referring to a fictional work that was written in the twenties of the past century: it is in fact a celebration of a novel that sensitises us on issues that are topical to a glocalised, increasingly globalised, NSA-ed world."[2]

According to Alain Bourret, director of the film, "From the beginning, I wanted to put my work more in an academic setting than in the world of cinema. In form, the work was of the traditional type, with only two concessions to the digital one: the shooting and the video editing. Beforehand, I approached and contacted many universities, so that my adaptation is now enrolled in the curriculum of Czech, English and American universities."[6]
Bourret continues, "What increases the uniqueness of The Glass Fortress
is that the actors did not know my adaptation at all, let alone the script. On screen, they all had an expression of lost beings, they roam like ghosts. This is the message I wanted to convey, that of a lost being, D-503, in a newly acquired freedom and the progressive awakening of his conscience."[6]

Background

We, the 1921 Russian novel on which the film
The Glass Fortress
is based, directly inspired: